Fun Weekend!

I'm all packed up and ready to head up to Stacy & John's wedding up in Simi Valley in a few minutes. I'm real excited, though, because Erin and I get to attend the wedding as guests! We absolutely love photographing weddings, but it's really fun to get to just "go" sometimes, and get our dance on!

Stacy has been a good friend of mine for years, and her soon-to-be-hubby is AWESOME! I'm super stoked for these two! When they got engaged, right after Stacy told me, she was like "and you get to come to the wedding, and leave your cameras at home!" I did get to shoot their engagement session, though, and help them find a photographer for the big day!

Tomorrow, though, we're meeting up with Kelly & Flip in Santa Ana to do a SWEET shoot that I can't tell you about yet, but trust me, it's going to be so cool! It's been in the works for months, and everything is a go for tomorrow!

After that, we'll head over to Dana Point to meet up with Connie & David for a fun, relaxed engagement session on the beach & cliffs. We're shooting their wedding in October, which is going to ROCK!

Monday will be filled with NOTHING, which I'm super excited about. I'm just taking the day off from everything...I'll probably hang out with my wife by the pool for most of the day, nap a little, maybe read. Who knows?!

Joy & Chad: Wedding

We hung out with Joy & Chad a few weeks ago at their wedding here in San Diego at the North Chapel at NTC. This is my new favorite spot to shoot in San Diego! Like, I want to shoot a wedding there every weekend! The chapel is SO COOL, beautiful light, open, everything you could want. PLUS, it's right in the middle of NTC/Liberty Station, so there are so many cool options for fun places to shoot.

Joy is such a sweetheart, and was an amazing bride. She was so ready to marry Chad, it was so awesome to get to be a part of their wedding! Chad was a total stud, and his groomsmen were HILARIOUS to hang around! We had a great time! At the reception, which was at the Kona Kai resort, everybody made us feel like family- we didn't want to leave! Anyway, here's a few favorites:

I love this shot of Joy through the front window of Details Salon in Ocean Beach.

The flowers were beautiful, simple and white.

This is one of my favorite dresses ever! It was so unique and classy, and definitely fit Joy perfectly.

How often do you see this kind of attention given to a dude? Chad was a STUD!

The boys, lookin' good.

Beautiful chapel, huh?

Joy's veil was about 45 feet long - beautiful! It was just the right amount of windy to make the veil really be breathtaking.

Erin snapped this one right as Joy and Chad entered the reception. I absolutely love it!

Can you see how happy she is? She absolutely adores Chad, and he digs her so much! Him and I had a talk at one point in the night about how we both somehow managed to land ladies that are way out of our league!

Thank you so much, you two, for sharing your day with us! We're so blessed to have gotten to be a part of it, and we're so excited to hang out!

Bekah & Scott's Guestbook

Bekah & Scott's wedding is just around the corner, so I thought it would be fun to post up their guest book! I love when couples ask for these things, I think they are such a cool way to have a memory of the guests from a wedding as opposed to those boring guest books that you usually see. This is an 8x8, 20 page KISS guest book. Bekah & Scott opted for the HOT red cover! Check it out:

Guess what I did yesterday?

Well, you don't have to guess really because here's some fun pictures our day of sailing from yesterday! It was an AMAZING day for sailing, the wind was perfect, and the temperature couldn't have been better. The wind was something like 16mph (which is way fast) and we were going about 7 knots the whole day! Yes!

A cool action shot

This is Jason, and it's his boat that we were on. "Hi, I'm Jason, your crazy captain! Welcome aboard!" Can you tell how much fun we were having?

Josh, looking tall. Which shot do you like better? The blue-saturated one, or the antique-y looking one?

Jason, the crazy captain again.

Doesn't this look like the life? We passed these guys on the way out to the ocean. How cool is the one dude in the middle, chillin?

A self-portrait :)

Mike & Shelly: Engagement

A few weeks ago Erin and I headed up to Laguna Beach to meet up with Mike & Shelly for their engagement session literally days before their wedding! We had a great time with them, and we absolutely adore Mike! He's such a great dude, and he had us (myself, Erin and Shelly) cracking up the whole time with his randomness!

He loves acting out scenarios, so I'd make stuff up and then call "Action!" when it was time for him to get in to character. It was a riot! He'd be just hanging out, and then I'd call action, and he'd flip on the charm and suave and walk over to Shelly and just be Mr. Don Juan. So great!

Anyways, here's a few of my favorites. I was really in a "shooting directly into the sun" mood, which is always fun. I think I'm still seeing spots, though :)

How cool is this phone booth? I love this thing!

They were such good sports, totally up for anything, even getting soaked while we waited for "the perfect wave." I think we got this on the first wave, but we definitely made them sit through at least a dozen more :)

An homage to the traditional "kissing behind the bouquet shot" that all us photographer-types do so much. This ice cream was amazing, cool little gilatto shop in Laguna, I don't remember how to get there though.

Right after I called "action." Don't you love the charm?

I thought this was really sweet. Kinda says a lot, I think. What you don't see in this picture is a dude laying out on the rocks, right in front of Mike. Way to block, Mike! Action!